Winter 2020

Research Notes

Georgia Southern Awarded More Than $6 Million for Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Georgia Southern University is the recipient of two grants totaling $6.5 million from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Both grants are from the agency’s Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS)Program. Nandi A. Marshall, DrPH, and Joseph Telfair, DrPH, faculty members in…
Exchange of Notes

New International Music Collaboration Project Creates Additional Avenue for Musician Development Martín Gendelman, DMA, associate professor and head of Georgia Southern’s music theory and composition area in the Department of Music, has always had an interest in creating new music opportunities for students. Last year, he created an opportunity that crossed continents. “This is one…
Eagles Win Big in the Big Easy

In a year marked by overwhelming obstacles, a fluctuating schedule and a wildly changing roster, the Georgia Southern Eagles football team fought for every win, and capped their 8-5 season with a dominating 38-3 win over Louisiana Tech in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl on Dec. 23. The Eagles offense, led by quarterback Shai…
A Georgia Southern Man

Shai Werts Overcomes Obstacleson and off the Gridiron It was supposed to be a blowout. Campbell University, a middle-tier, lower-division program from North Carolina, should’ve been an easy meal for an Eagles team looking to shake off a roller coaster offseason marred by the pandemic. Instead, the Eagles took the home field without 33 of…
Going Pro

They Wanted To Go Pro In Sports, But Weren’t Athletes. What To Do? Georgia Southern Had The Answer. It all started from scratch — just the way Michael Schetzel (’94) likes to do things. Schetzel got an internship with the Savannah Olympic Committee during the final semester of his master’s program in sport management. This led…
New Basketball Coach Ready for Success at Georgia Southern

Brian Burg: ‘We believe in a hard day’s work and doing right’ A coach’s first year on the job can be unpredictable. But Brian Burg believes his drive and work ethic will make his first year at Georgia Southern a successful one. “I feel extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to be the head coach…
Chronicles Fall 2020

Timothy O’Leary III (’68) has written over a dozen novels involving time travel, advanced military aircraft and horror. Z. Andrew Farkas (’70) of Ellicott City, Maryland, has retired as professor of transportation, and director of the transportation research center at Morgan State University in Baltimore. He is the son of the late Georgia Southern foreign languages department head…
1906 Scholar Preserving the Coastal Plain

Undergraduate Tapped asActing Curator for Herbarium In her freshman year, Andrea Appleton jumped at the chance to work as a curatorial assistant in the Statesboro Campus herbarium. Two years later when the curator’s position opened, she stepped into the role of acting curator of the third largest collection of dried plant specimens in Georgia. It’s rare…
Paying it Forward

Scholarship Empowers Student to Focus on Pre-med Career Georgia Southern sophomore Sidney Hopper has a keen ability to focus. She is an Honors Program scholar, an ROTC student and a biochemistry major with a 3.92 GPA. Additionally, she is pursuing a double minor in military science and in Arabic – one of the hardest languages for…
A Legacy of Service

Jack Hill Scholarship Fund Honors Public Servant A scholarship fund has been established to honor the late State Senator Jack Hill, a distinguished Georgia Southern University alumnus and revered public servant who served 30 years in the Georgia Legislature. “Southeast Georgia and our Georgia Southern community lost a tremendous servant leader — Senator Jack Hill,” said President…